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A dangerously infectious collection of fun songs for children and adults. Helen Raw's voice is stunning. Listening to her can easily wash away the stresses of the day. This is definitely a must have for parents with grade school aged children, or just people with a fondness for Scottish folk songs. - ★★★★★Andrea Guy - Mossip

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IT WORKS! It helps calm down my son when he is having a tantrum, and soothes him to sleep at bedtime. And me too, if truth be told - this is a very relaxing CD, and we have enjoyed some fantastic mother and baby chill-out time together. What more could any mother want? - ★★★★★Amazon.co.uk

These instrumental songs are really good if you are looking for something soothing with no voice. My baby reacts really well to all these melodies and putting him to sleep became easier. I would definitely recommend this to anyone! - ★★★★★Amazon.co.uk

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While the origins of most kids songs and nursery rhyme are unknown and subject to speculation and conjecture, the origins of "Coulter's Candy" are not only well documented but can be traced back to an eccentric travelling salesman, Robert Coltart, who operated out of the Scottish borders town of Galashiels in the 1870s. Coltart travelled round the markets and fairs in the borders, singing this song, which worked as a kind of early advertising jingle.

The verse about growing up and going to sea was added by Norman Buchan in his 1962 book, "101 Scottish Songs".

John A.Anderson had met Coltart in his youth, and described him in his 1933 book, "The Cleikum, Being Interesting Reminiscences of Old Innerleithen":

He wore a tam o'shanter or was it a Balmoral bonnet? With a pheasant's feather sticking straight up from a buckle above his ear. A shiny black bag slung over his shoulder held his stock of the famous candy. [Coltart] adopted daft methods to increase his sale. The opening nonsensical lines of "Alla Balla" were sufficient to bring out all the prospective customers within sound of his voice, and long before he reached his fourth verse he had the bairns of the village gathered round him.

In 1870, Coltart lived with his family at 48 Overhaugh Street, Galasheils. By the time of the 1880 census, they had moved to Henderson's Close, where Coltart died on 23rd April 1880.

In his 1901 book, "The Games and Diversions of Argyleshire", RC Maclagan published a rhyme which seems to be a conflation of Coltarts advertising jingle and "Bobby Shafto":

Hullaballa, hullaballa, sitting on his mother's knee,
Crying for a wee bawbee to get some sugar-candy.
My wee lad's awa' to sea, he'll come back and marry me,
Silver buckles on his knee; my wee lad's a sailor.